What my dad the psychoanalyst taught me about AI

The gap between processing words and understanding them.

My dad was a psychoanalyst. He spent his career learning to hear what people were actually saying — not just the words, but what lived underneath them.

He told me a story once that stuck with me.

The woman in the waiting room

He walked out of his office one afternoon and found a woman sitting there — not one of his patients. He asked if he could help. She …